Toby Francis may be best known for mixing hard rock acts like Kiss, Aerosmith and ZZ Top, but the versatile FOH engineer can't be tied down to one musical style. Take the current 88-date Ariana Grande world tour; you'll find him nightly mixing the pop spectacle behind the DiGiCo SD7 console supplied by the production's audio vendor, VER Tour Sound.
by Rob Tavaglione For Rob Tavaglione, recording a phone interview with top NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson was a routine audio sessionuntil he heard what the six-time championship cup winner had to say and realized he could apply Johnson's words of racing wisdom to his own craft.
"What I try and do is enhance the hooks and push those things up. People buy tickets, have a good time and that's it; it's gone. They're not going to listen to it again."Nigel Green, FOH engineer, Shania Twain